“You brought me into your home, you introduced me to your family, and you made me believe that walking away from my military career to marry you was a chance at real peace.”
“And out of love—out of a foolish, blind desire to build a peaceful civilian family—I recused myself from the federal task force, closed my active duty commission, and accepted an honorable discharge.”
“I thought I was saving a good man from the shadow of a corrupt father.”
“I didn’t realize until eighteen months ago that the entire marriage was an orchestrated operation to neutralize a federal prosecutor.”
Martin Voss looked at his client, then looked down at his own notes, realization hitting him like a physical blow.
He realized that the Hale family hadn’t hired him to handle a simple divorce; they had used his firm to put the final nail in the coffin of a woman they had systematically exploited for years.
